Was Newman 'very friendly' with Baron von Hügel? Image: Wiki Commons (here) and Wikipedia (here) This is Part III. Click for Part I and Part II. This is an addendum to the previous pieces critiquing Bishop Sanborn’s indefensible comments about Cardinal Newman, made in a reaction video made in November 2022. In this video, the bishop …
Is it true to say Newman saw conscience as an 'internet connection to heaven'? Image: Wiki Commons This is Part II. See Part I here and Part III here. In the previous piece, I began analysing the claims made by Bishop Donald Sanborn in a reaction video published by his seminary’s YouTube channel.[1] This video …
Is it true to say ‘that [Newman's] idea of conscience is precisely modernist’? Image: Wiki Commons This is Part I. See Part II here and Part III here. Recently, Bishop Donald Sanborn published, via his seminary’s YouTube channel, a reaction video to an interview between Bishop Robert Barron and Ben Shapiro. This reaction video featured …
"We are supposed to conclude that anyone so attacked by such an apparent pillar of orthodoxy must have been in the wrong." Image: Orestes Brownson, Wiki Commons. With all quotes below, line breaks have been liberally added for readability. In a previous article, I quoted American convert Orestes Brownson critiquing the writing and person of …
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"Catholics and Protestants, as bodies, hold nothing in common in religion, however they may seem to do so." Image: Newman kneeling before Fr Dominic Barberi, who received him into the Church in Littlemore in 1845. From the parish of Littlemore. Editors' Notes What follows is an extract from the fifth of Newman’s series of discourses …
"Nothing is easier than to use the word, and mean nothing by it." Image: Bust of Newman at Trinity College, Oxford where he was an undergraduate, and where one of our editors lived for a term. Wiki Commons, Public Domain Editors' Notes This is the third part of Discourse II (‘Theology a Branch of Knowledge’) of John …
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"Faith is an intellectual act, its object truth, and its result knowledge." Image: Wiki Commons, Public Domain Editors' Notes This is the second part of Discourse II (‘Theology a Branch of Knowledge’) of John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University, in which he considers the arguments of those who would exclude the teaching of …
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"It is very plain, that a Divine Being and a University so circumstanced cannot co-exist." Image: Wiki Commons, Public Domain Editors' Notes In Discourse II (‘Theology a Branch of Knowledge’) of his The Idea of a University, John Henry Newman considers the arguments of those who would exclude the teaching of theology from university – …